hi guys it's Katie with factory-direct crafts and today I'm going to show you how to make these floral balloons this is a super great project for updating just plain helium balloons and turning them into a really cute piece of party decor what you're going to need for this project is you're going to need white helium balloons and the larger the better you can order a special order really large round white ones or if you choose to use just as plain balloons like I have here be sure to fill them up the day of the event otherwise the helium will go out too much to support the weight of the vines um you're also gonna need some Baker's twine a pair of scissors some floral wire wire cutters artificial flowers and then artificial flower vines so once you get all of the supplies together let's go ahead and get started these floral balloons are so beautiful at a baby shower or birthday party or even a wedding reception they're just a lot of fun and really easy to make um so the first step is kind of adding a few touches to your garland so I bought this it's just a premade floral garland so at one end we're gonna go ahead and we're gonna add a few more blooms right up where our balloon is going to be so I cut these off of a little bouquet of artificial flowers and they're purple name up stock so what I'm going to do is I'm going to go ahead and pull out about three or four inches of wire and I'm gonna attach one at a time to this so I'm gonna start with this blue and I want them going down and I'm gonna wrap my wire around both stems to hold them together now you want to make sure that you wrap the ends really nice and tight so that they don't poke up and pop your balloon okay I'm going to add another one go ahead and cut my wire again and attach that just like there and then I have this little piece of bloom as well you can really add as much flowers as you want it's really up to you it's just like flower arranging in any kind of bouquet you just sort of play around with your blooms and greenery until you get a look that you are really happy with I'm just wrapping this around okay so once you've kind of jazzed up your vine a bit we're going to go ahead and attach it to the balloon so I just have these plain helium balloons and I'm actually going to change the string to because I think this this is just from the party store or whatever and it kind of gives it sort of a different look so I'm gonna go ahead and trim that off and we are gonna add some of this gorgeous white Baker's twine to it so I'm gonna go ahead and tie that on to the end of the balloon just like so and double knot it so now we have this new gorgeous string and I'm gonna go ahead and cut about eight feet of that and now it's time to wire on our garland so I'm going to place this alongside the string cut another little piece of wire and secure it on again be really careful not to get the ends of this wire near the inflated part of the balloon so only wrap it around the tail end okay and there you have your gorgeous floral balloons I hope you guys have a lot of fun of this project and that they look great decorating your next event thanks for watching